By Toklas
Date: 22 March 2001
Gauntlet
She flourished gauntlet and burnished a sword,
he loved her on Thursday but sailed with the lee.
She cut the air with his parting last word.
She flourished gauntlet and burnished a sword-
wailed to the tide and the deepening fiord.
But he spoke, struck her down; "Love thou not me!"
She flourished gauntlet and burnished a sword,
he loved her on Thursday but sailed with the lee.
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